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"Frank Scotton, assigned to Viet Nam from 1962 to 1975, details counterinsurgency technique used and shares observations and conclusions about the challenges faced in the US's involvement in the Viet Nam War"--Provided by publisher.

Suitable for two types of people in Texas: those who play 42 and those who need to learn, this title contains instructions in all the basics, from bidding a hand or setting an opponent to the challenge of the 84 hand. This book illumines a cherished tradition that links Texans from different walks of life.

A memoir of home, nature, and change in the American West, Light in the Trees makes cultural and environmental topics personal through a narrator's travels between past and present, rural and urban. Growing up on a mountain foothill in western Washington, Gail Folkins offers a small-town viewpoint of the Pacific Northwest.

A harrowing tale of destruction and loss amid the Holocaust ghetto and concentration camps of Holocaust Poland, it is also a story of the goodness that still exists in a dark world, of survival and renewal.

"A model for personal and professional development based upon the story and characters of The Wizard of Oz and the life of its author, L. Frank Baum. Discusses the intellectual, moral, and ethical value of lifelong learning, loving, and serving others with humility and a focus on the future"--Provided by publisher.

"A political biography of Nebraska state senator Ernest (Ernie) Chambers, investigating the tumultuous local and national political climate for African Americans from the late twentieth century to today"--Provided by publisher.

"An overarching history of the law and legal culture of Texas, particularly investigating the days of early settlement through 1920; Texas's law of property, families, and businesses; criminal law and tort law; and the Texas legal profession"--Provided by publisher.

From the 1880s until after World War I, Texas prosecutions for adultery, fornication, rape, seduction, and sodomy were many, but formal penal code seemed insufficiently stringent to southerners, who often sought other redress. This title presents the 'honor defense' in six celebrated murder trials, 1896-1977.

'Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Ben Crenshaw, Judy Rankin, Tom Kite, Fred Cobb, Harvey Penick, Babe Zaharias, Lee Trevino... the list of Texas golf legends reads like the leader board of an imaginary 20th-Century Golf Greats Invitational. This work features portraits and interviews of fifty golfers.

In his pursuit of Texas terroir, the sense of place manifest in Texas wine country's sun-baked soils, variable climate, and human intervention, Russell Kane has travelled the state tasting wine, interviewing the major players in Texas wine culture, and reflecting on the state's extraordinary history and enterprising peoples. Here is the total immersion experience.

"Chronicles western swing bands popular in Texas and Oklahoma during the Great Depression and World War II; also investigates contemporary western swing renaissance. Includes music transcription and analysis"--Provided by publisher.

Examines Texas' historical DNA, making sense of Lone Star identity west of the hundredth meridian and defining Texas's place in the American West. Focusing on the motives that shape how Texans appropriate their past - from cashing in on tourism to avoiding historical realities - Glen Sample Ely reveals the inner workings of a multiplicity of Texas identities.

In the Texas Republic, Spanish law came to be seen as more equitable than English common law in certain areas, especially womens rights, and some Spanish traditions were adopted into Texas law. This title explores the evolution of Castilian law during the Spanish Reconquest and how those laws came to the New World and Texas.

"Tells the story of Steven L. Berk, M.D., who was kidnapped from his home in Amarillo, Texas, in March of 2005. Shows how Berk used his experiences and training as a physician to survive the ordeal and bring his captor to justice"--Provided by publisher.

Jorge was the brother of the MacFarlane family's longtime fishing guide; Carla, girlfriend of Frankies brother. But when the Tucson murder victims turn out to be Frankies colleague, Frankie joins the hunt for the killers, bringing her geologists eye and analytical skills to aid sheriffs detective Toni Navarro and private investigator Philo Dane.

Through first-person interviews with defense contractors, border residents, American military, Minutemen, county officials, Customs and Border Protection agents, environmental activists, and others whose voices have never been heard, Robert Lee Maril examines the 2,000-mile-long project to keep illegal immigrants, narcotics, and terrorists on the other side of the US-Mexico border.

From the Texas panhandle to the mountains of Arizona, Amy Auker has lived the cowboy life - as wife, as mother, as cook, as ranch hand, as writer. In fine-grained detail she captures the prairie light, the traffic on small farm-to-market roads, the vacant stillness of shipping pens when fall works are over. But she also captures the unmistakable westernness of the people and creatures around her.

Incorporating previously overlooked materials, including tribal council records, oral histories, and reservation newspapers, this title explores the political history of South Dakotas Oglala Lakota reservation during the mid-twentieth century.

Michael Ventura's owned only one car his entire life: a green '69 Chevy Malibu. Its wheels have crisscrossed the American landscape over more miles than a round trip to the moon. His essays convey a tactile and intimate relationship with land and people - and of course the car. In this collection the essays switch lanes with Hancock's evocative black-and-white photographs.

Lofty dreams and harsh realities clash on the Texas frontier

A former CIA officer led one hell of an interesting life, from Montana to Southeast Asia. Equally embraces a rowdy Western life, the brutal realities of ground war, and the beauty of tribal funeral rituals.

Examining Raymond Yellow Thunders death at the hands of four white men in 1972, this title looks deep into the past that gave rise to the tragedy. It recounts the largely forgotten struggles of American Indian Movement activist Bob Yellow Bird and tells the story of Whiteclay, Nebraska, and the controversial border hamlet.

A companion volume to ""Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier"" that takes readers from Mississippi to the frontiers of West Texas, Indian Territory, New Mexico Territory, and finally the frozen Montana wilderness through a series of linked, true-life tales of crimes and trials.

Tells the story of Watson Mithlo, Chiricahua Apache, his family, and his life. This story tells Watson's lived history as the Chiricahua were relocated from Arizona to Florida to Alabama and finally to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. But this is also a story of Harry Mithlo, Watson's son, and Conger Beasley, Harry's friend.

Zitkala-a, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was born on the Yankton Sioux reservation in 1876 and went on to become one of the most influential American Indian writer/activists of the twentieth century. ""Help Indians Help Themselves"" is a critical collection of primary documents written by Bonnin.

From an early age, Chef Adan Medrano understood the power of cooking to enthrall, to grant artistic agency, and to solidify identity as well as succor and hospitality. In this second cookbook, he documents and explains native ingredients, traditional techniques, and innovations in casero (home-style) Mexican American cooking in Texas.

Zitkala-i?1/2a, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was born on the Yankton Sioux reservation in 1876 and went on to become one of the most influential American Indian writer/activists of the twentieth century. This book is a critical collection of primary documents written by Bonnin.

Explores the campus architecture of the Texas Tech University System, which was inspired by the sixteenth-century Plateresque Spanish Renaissance architectural style. This book details the parallels between the buildings of Texas Tech and those of their forebears, while exploring the remarkable stories behind the construction itself.

Spanning more than a millennium of antiquity and recovering stories and ideas interpreted from a Cheyenne worldview, this book's joint purpose is rooted as much in a decolonization roadmap as it is in preservation of culture and identity for the next generations of Cheyenne people.

The Twenty-Sixth Winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry. Prospect/ comprises poems about vantage points, country and personhood, and the difficulty of understanding what is true.